Music history, daily
On This Day in Music
Composers born, composers lost, and pieces that met the world for the first time — and every name here is playable in the library.
- 1715Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach was born — German organist. source 311 years ago
- 1881Jan van Gilse was born — Dutch composer and conductor. source 145 years ago
- 1888Irving Berlin was born — Belarusian-American pianist and composer. source 138 years ago
- 1895William Grant Still was born — American composer and conductor. source 131 years ago
- 1896Josip Štolcer-Slavenski was born — Croatian composer and academic. source 130 years ago
- 1916Max Reger died. 110 years ago
- 1941Eric Burdon was born — English musician. source 85 years ago
- 1990Stratos Dionysiou died — Greek Singer, composer and lyricist. source 36 years ago
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Every entry is drawn from our source-cited composer biographies and piece notes — dates come from published references, not from memory. Browse any composer to read the full biography, or the library to play their music.
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